Candidate Quotes · Page 3

“Your edgy-cation candidate.”

— Jeff Garvin

How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

— George Packer

If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide.

— Ted Cruz

I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

— Pat Buchanan

It's a lot easier helping a candidate than being one yourself.

— Jim Bob Duggar

With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.

— Larry King

There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.

— Anthony Fauci

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

— Betty Hill

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

— Dick Gephardt

“Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The 2009 elections were the first my party faced. Still MNS candidates lost by lesser margins. Each of my candidate got more…

— Raj Thackeray

I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country…

— Rick Santorum

As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected…

— Moby

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't…

— David Weinberger

“Before you hire, ask yourself how much your hiring decision is linked to the ways the candidate is similar to you.”

— Binod Shankar

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it…

— Roger Mudd

It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact…

— Pat Paulsen

The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling…

— Michael Caputo

“The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for…

— Theodore H. White

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why…

— Mike Birbiglia

I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make…

— John Kasich

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever…

— George Will

“Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra…

— Suzy Kassem

What people will judge any potential candidate on are their policies, what they stand for, what they will advocate, what they might…

— Humza Yousaf

Al is, and always has been, the person who has been the candidate - the elected official. And he is the one…

— Tipper Gore

There are some in the establishment who dislike a candidate who thinks for himself and isn't easily controlled by the Washington establishment.…

— Kris Kobach

“I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made…

— Henry David Thoreau

Republican or Democrat candidate for Presidency ought to say: I look forward to working with the president to solve the problem. People…

— George W. Bush

“I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to…

— Sarah Vowell

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

— John Bolton

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

— Francois Hollande

In terms of objectives or agenda, Donald Trump has been the most transparent candidate that I can remember.

— Rush Limbaugh

The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?

— James Bovard

I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.

— Ksenia Sobchak

If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

— Carlos Beruff

Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.

— Roger Ailes

I think if you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate. You know, here's the thing.

— Renee Montagne

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

— Glenn Greenwald

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

— William Howard Taft

The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

— Joe McGinniss